At the age of 13 played with
orchestra for the first time, at 15 – gave his first recital. While studying,
gave many performances in various cities of the USSR as a soloist and chamber music
player.

At the Eighth All-Russia Piano
Competition (Kislovodsk, 1989) he was awarded 1st prize (joint), prize of
Russia's Music Society and a special price for the performance of Prokofiev's
2nd Piano Concerto. Since then, he has never taken part in competitions.

Mikhail Lidsky’s concert career
includes numerous appearancesin Russia and neighboring countries, as well as Belgium, UK,
Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, Finland, France,
Turkey, Taiwan, and Japan.

From 1997 on Mikhail Lidsky has been
annual guest of Serate musicali, Milan, giving numerous recitals and concerto
appearances, as well as chamber music performances. Mikhail Lidsky is a founder
of several important musical events such as Autumn Music Nights in Moscow and Piano Festival in Volgograd, Russia.

From 2007 on, Mikhail Lidsky, the
only pianist of his generation, has been undertaking annual recital series at
Moscow International Music House, having performed 32 Beethoven Sonatas,
all-Schubert, all-Schumann and all-Chopin programmes, and four recital Liszt
series. These series are being repeated in several cities of Russia. Besides, he is giving
numerous appearances as a soloist and chamber music player, e.g. closing
Antalya Piano Festival 2010
in Turkey by playing Shostakovich’s First Piano Concerto
with Moscow Virtuosi led by Vladimir Spivakov, performing Medtner’s First Piano
Concerto with Moscow Philharmonic at the Russian Piano Music Festival (Moscow,
November 2012) and Prokofiev’s Fifth Piano Concerto with Saint Petersburg
Philharmonic led by Alexander Vedernikov (Saint Petersburg, February 2013).

Mikhail
Lidsky has released
many CDs, of which six have been published by DENON, and three by DECCA (e.g.
Brahms’ sonatas for violin/viola and piano recorded with Domenico Nordio).